To Rachel:
Many thanks; I think that Salford Local History Library and/or Salford Museum and Art Gallery (where I used to work many moons ago!) might well have an image or two for you. There may also be something of use in Manchester Archives and Local Studies’ photographic database, housed on the first floor of Manchester Central Library.
Best wishes
Jim Garretts, Senior Curator, the Thackray Museum.
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From: Social History Curators
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donkey stone image
Dear all,
I’m wondering if anyone has a photograph in their collection of someone ‘donkey stoning’ their front door step that we would be able to use. We’re currently re-developing our industrial history gallery and are hoping to have an image blown up quite large as a backdrop to our new display on donkey stones. For those of you who are wondering what donkey stones are (I hadn’t heard of them until I moved to Manchester!) they are a mixture of chalk, limestone and cement molded into small blocks, like bars of soap. Housewives would use them to clean their front door steps with - I think it was mostly a Lancashire and Yorkshire tradition.
Thanks for your help.
Rachel
Rachel Cornes
Social History Curator
Neighbourhood and Community Services
Tameside Museums and Galleries Service
Portland Basin Museum
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